Last Updated or created 2023-08-06

We are movieholic’s. Watching everything. Sometimes we thing “why the F did we watch that” other times it’s a pretty unknown jewel.

We loved “De kijk van Koolhoven” a dutch tv serie about movies, by our dutch director Martin van Koolhoven.
He explained why he liked certain movies. Tarantino did simular but couldn’t find much about that

We started watching the top 250 IMDB movies a few years ago. Comming a long way, and has been a treat.

Below a list of top movies i could thing of in serveral genre’s.
Nowhere complete, and probably forgot better ones

Action

• 3 days of the condor
• Snowpiercer
• Maze runner
• Inferno
• Bourne series
• Enter the Dragon
• Fugitive
• John Wick

Animation

• Akira
• Ghost in the shell
• 9
• 5cm per second
• Tintin (2011)
• Beowulf
• Coco
• Song of the sea

Comedy

• guest house paradiso
• Life of brian
• “100-year old man who climbed out of the window”
• Blues brothers
• “Dont look now we’re being shot at”
• Groundhog day
• The man who sues god
• Mash attacks
• Modern times
• Great Dictator
• Airplane

Crime

• 12 Angry men
• The sting
• The Mule
• Oceans series
• “No Country for Old Men”

Drama

• Roma
• A beautiful mind
• Bicycle thieves
• Cast away
• Cinema Paradiso
• Green book
• Kite runner
• Man on the moon
• Seven samurai
• American Sniper
• Wadjda

Dutch

• Amsterdamed
• De Lift
• The Johnsons
• “Schippers van de Kameleon”
• Michiel de Ruijter

Fantasy

• The BFG
• Hobbit
• Lotr
• Labyrinth
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
• Time bandits
• City of lost children

Film Noir

• Double indemnity
• Touch of evil
• Sin City
• M

Horror

• Alien
• Saw
• The Platform
• Underwater
• Them
• The Thing
• Troll hunter?
• Braindead

IT-Related

• Antitrust
• Hackers
• Tron
• Matrix
• Source code
• Swordfish
• Takedown
• War games

Mindfuck

• Looper
• Memento
• Oldboy
• Vertigo
• The Prestige
• Primer
• Time lapse

Pre-1940

• The general
• Metropolis
• Modern times
• Gold Rush
• M

SciFy

• Bladerunner
• Metropolis (silent)
• Attraction
• Inception
• Interstellar
• Martian
• Terminator
• Avatar
• Arrival (2016)
• Incredible shrinking man
• Them (1954)

Fun to watch

• 4Latas

War

• Live is beautiful
• Great escape
• Dunkirk
• The pianist
• T-34
• Oorlogswinter
• Schindler’s list
• Das boot
• Downfall
• Inglourious basterds
• The imitation game
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
• Escape from Sobibor (1987)
• painted bird (2019)

Weird

• Funky Forrest
• Existence
• Delicatessen
• Meet the feebles
• “Requiem for a dream”
• Swiss army man
• Tenet
• A clockwork orange
• “Curious case of Benjamin Button”
• The Lobster
• Zardoz

Western

• Revenant
• Brimstone
• Hang m high
• Good bad and the Ugly
• Magnificent Seven (1960)

Woman Power

• Jackie Brown
• Hidden figures
• Color Purple
• Moana / Brave
• Roma
• Alien
• The Piano
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• A League of Their Own
• 9 to 5
• Kill bill

List for Maryse

• Zwartboek
• Red sea ding resort
• The pianist
• Schindler’s list
• Zwartboek
• Son of Saul
• Boy in the striped pyjama’s
• Waltz With Bashir
• La vita è bella

Indian movies

• Taare Zameen Par (2007) – Like stars on earth (is a tearjerker)
• 3 Idiots (2009)
• Slumdog millionaire (Techinally a british movie)
• Dangal (2016)